ND Stevenson found himself a new hobby. When he discovered that Instagram Stories gives you the ability to resize emojis, he realized the emojis themselves could be used as an art medium. Since then, he's been recreating famous paintings with nothing but emojis with the goal of making them recognizable to all of us. You don't have to be an art student to recognize The Kiss by Gustav Klimt or A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.
Even Dalí's The Persistence of Memory can be pegged immediately, despite the fact that the clocks aren't melting; we just know it so well. Stevenson has a multitude of emojis to work with, as an upside-down bucket becomes a hat, broccoli florets become trees, a penis can be recreated with a flexed arm, and broomsticks fill in for any kind of straight line. He also found that text on art is possible, since every letter and number has its own emoji. If you've seen the painting Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya before at all, you can easily see a piece of raw steak as exposed flesh.
Check out a gallery of 18 famous painting recreated with emojis at I'm Fine I'm Fine Just Understand. -via Metafilter